What Really Goes Down During Potty Training

Every mom will tell you that the first thing that they can’t wait for their kids to do is to learn how to use the bathroom on their own, after they learn to walk and talk, of course. You know, we can’t wait to potty train our little monsters, so we can finally stop wiping little butts and spend so much money on diapers. Diapers are expensive people, imagine my poor hubby buying two boxes of diapers and two boxes of wipes every two weeks for our twins, it’s crazy, as many or should I say, all of you know.

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With my first born, potty training was fairly easy, she was a “perfect” baby and toddler. She never once wet her bed, she would wake up in the middle of the night and tell me she had to pee. Sometimes she wouldn’t even use the potty until after she would wake up around 8 in the morning. She was only 2 years old, like what!? She only wet her undies a couple of times during the day, she was truly amazing and me and my hubby couldn’t complain. Potty training can be so stressful and time consuming that sometimes you just want to give up all together and would rather change diapers for the rest of your life (exaggerating a little) than to go through the trouble. I sure sometimes felt that way.

I felt that way with while potty training my wonderful twins. Now you can only imagine that if potty training one child is stressful enough, imagine two toddlers. Since my first born was so amazing about the whole potty training situation, I felt super confident about potty training my twins, I thought “I got this”, I’m an OG mom and nothing is stopping me. Haha! I laugh at myself for thinking that, who was I kidding, my twins were a whole different story.

The things that happened when I was potty training them was plain and simple unbelievable, funny, stressful and successful. Even though I went through a whole lot of crazy which I will share with you right now, I do have to say that I managed to potty train my twins in two days! I will share more about how I potty trained my twins in only two days very soon. In the mean time let’s read what really goes down during potty training because shit literally happens.

If you already potty trained your child, then you will nod your head with agreement and sometimes cringe at the fact that you also went through it and rather forget then remember. If you are starting to potty train your child, then read along and learn the real truth of what really goes down during potty training. Don’t say I didn’t told you so.

What really goes down during potty training

The mop will become your bestfriend

Say hello to your life savor. You will be using the mop numerous of times during your potty training days to clean your child’s pee and sometimes poop from the floor and to keep your house clean and hide the hot mess that it turns into. Sorry mop, but someone has to clean the nasty pee off the floor.

There will be pee on the floor 98% of the time

So here’s the thing about potty training, pee on the floor will become the new norm in your life. Your child is just starting to learn how to aim (if you have a baby boy) or sit (baby girl), sometimes the pee is faster than your child’s feet to run across the house or take a few steps to pee on their potty. It will take some time, in the meantime you will have pee on the floor 98% of the time while you are potty training.

Will change undies more times than you think

I honestly don’t even know why I even bothered putting my twins undies because they would pee on it like it’s their potty. Then again, I didn’t want them to be naked the whole day, so I had to deal with it. Buy a lot of undies because they will need it! Oh yes, you will also have to do laundry more often now, because a smelly peed underwear stinks!

House smells like pee and poop

Maybe not exactly like pee and poop, but you will sure feel like it does. The amount of pee and poop that you have to clean off the floor will make you feel like your house smells like it. Sometimes, you don’t even mop, just a wipe will do, nobody got time to mop the floor when pee will get right on it again.

Poop on hands

So, this may or may not happen to you, it indeed happened to me and here is a brief story about it. So, I was in the kitchen cooking or washing the dishes, I can’t remember. Then all of a sudden I hear my son screaming ” mami, mami, poop”, so I thought “yes! he pooped in his potty”. Wrong, I was so wrong! He pooped on the floor and grabbed his poop and went running to show me. He was so proud that he didn’t poop on his undies that he screamed with excitement with poop in his hands. I almost died of disgust, you wouldn’t believe the amount of soap and hand sanitizer I put on that boy’s hands.

Your patience will get tested

Potty training your kids is definitely a patience tester, you will literally want to pull your hair out, cry and just give up all together. Potty training is hard people!, well the first or second day which will feel like a month. So just have patience and fight through it.

Aiming is harder to teach than you think

If you have a boy, teaching your son how to aim or how to hold his little wee wee (that’s how I call it, haha!) when sitting down is a little hard, they do not know and they certainly are not born knowing how to. It’s your job or your hubby’s job to teach your son how to aim. In the meantime while he is learning, you will sometimes see a fountain of pee happening here and there. Prepare for it.

Running back and forth like a marathon to the potty to only have them miss

The minute your child learns how to say “pee” or “poop” every time he/she needs to go potty, you will run like no other. You will grab your child and run like your life depended on it, or the floor depended on it. Then your child will miss and start peeing on your way to the potty, so you are left with a trail of pee. It happens.

Constant interrogation

You will ask your child if he/she has to go potty because they sometimes will not tell you or they will wait until they can’t hold their pee any longer. So you will constantly be asking them if they need to use the bathroom or not, like every 20 minutes or so.

Wiping small little butts still happens

If you think once your child learns how to potty you don’t have to clean their behinds anymore, think again. You pretty much still have to be wiping their butts for quite some time. Look at it this way, your child just graduated from diapers to undies, your wiping butt skills is still much needed.

Conversation involves the words pee or poop

Ahh nothing better than to start your sentence with pee and ended it with poop, haha! Not in that order, but you get what I’m saying. During the potty training days, you will find yourself talking about pee and poop more than you’d like, you will even talk about it with your hubby, sisters, mom and even your mommy friends or non-mommy friends.

Celebration party every time they use the potty correctly

Prepare to jump, dance, sing and clap your hands every time your child gets it right, you know actually peeing or pooping in their potty and not on the floor. You get such a relief and satisfaction when your kids starts using their potties that you just want to celebrate. Celebrating with your child also encourages them to continue doing it and it also makes them happy to see you happy. Nothing beats a good dancing in the morning to wake you up and brighten up your day.

So my friend, here are a few things that you can expect if it’s your first time potty training your child. My one important advice is to wait until you know your child is ready to potty train. These things will still happen but at least potty training will go faster than if your child is not ready.

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How funny that we both posted about potty training today! And I agree with all of these! Potty training can be messy, but if you want until your child is ready, it will be a lot easier!Chelsea @ Life With My Littles recently posted…The Secret to Potty Training